dwl Alternatives

dwl is described as 'Compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is:' and is a wayland compositor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to dwl for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best dwl alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like dwl are niri, i3, Sway and Openbox.

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  1. flwm icon
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    The Fast Light Window Manager is a small stacking FLTK-based window manager written in C++ and available for redistribution under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. Sawfish icon
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    Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Blackbox is an original window manager, sharing no code with any others. It's designed to be fairly small and minimal, making it particularly suited to less powerful computers. It doesn't support images, other than generated gradients, but it does support multiple...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. Gnome Mutter icon
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    Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland
     
  6. Whim icon
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    Whim is a hackable, pluggable and scriptable dynamic window manager for Windows 10 and 11, built using WinUI 3, .NET, and C# scripting.

    56 Whim alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Phoenix icon
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    Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript. Phoenix aims for efficiency and a very small footprint.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. WMFS² icon
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    WMFS² is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X written in C. WMFS² is a free software distributed under the BSD license. It can be driven from keyboard or mouse and its configuration stands in one text file, easily understandable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    The fastest, simplest tiler for KDE Plasma 6+ that gives you full freedom at your fingertip. No need to remember dozens of keyboard shortcuts or be limited by a fixed tile layout.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
     
  10. PaperDE icon
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    A light-weight desktop environment based on Qt/Wayland and wayfire.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Qt
    • Wayland
     
  11. sxwm icon
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    tiling window managers dont have to be difficult.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
     
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